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Java

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Last updated on 2021-08-08.

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Daniel B. Turner

Education

PhD Candidate, Entomology and Ecology, Evolutionary, and Behavior

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

current - 2018

B.S., Environmental Science & Spanish Language, Literature, and Linguistics (minor: Biology)

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

2018 - 2014

Work Experience

Graduate Researcher

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

current - 2018

  • Built relational database of 10,000s of plant chemicals using R, SQL, and cloud-based data management
  • Developed Bayesian and non-Bayesian hierarchical regression models for short time ecological time series
  • Co-taught graduate seminar in time series analysis, taught introductory statistics and biology to 160 non-STEM undergraduates, will be teaching assistant for graduate statistical modeling course in Spring 2022
  • Accolades: Fulbright Open Research Finalist, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

2018 - 2015

  • Developed coding workflow and package (see below) to produce individualized stakeholder reports and published academic paper in top 4 journal in the field (project continued into graduate school).
  • Ran genetic and audio analyses to discover a new species of toad in the Dominican Republic

Software Development

c4bi: Coding for broader impact

R package leveraging ecologists’ programming skills for effective stakeholder communication.

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Data science blog

Personal project portfolio covering:

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  • Natural language processing with machine learning, integrating R Shiny into data collection workflows, data vizualization